Disclaimer: I do not own Fifty Shades of Grey, all of the characters listed that are recognized belong to E. L. James and the initial timeline and plot does not belong to me either. Anything you do not recognize (thoughts, plots, ideas, characters, etc.) is mine.
A/N: I am writing this story because I have noticed that there aren't many stories out there about Elena herself and certainly none about why she is the way she is. And I don't really think that that's fair that everyone sympathizes with Christian because they know his story but no one knows Elena's and they all chalk her up to be a bad guy... but I don't think that's quite right. So I'm writing this story to prove somewhat of a point: that no one is born evil or bad or fucked up. Something happens to make them that way.
While she lay there bleeding and bruised – broken – just waiting for Christian to burst in with his security team and find her where she was several thoughts were going through her mind. The first and foremost of them was that she wasn't going to let herself die. She had dropped into that void only once in all of her years of Hell and now that she was finally free, she wasn't going to drop into that void. She refused to drop into that void. She closed her eyes, leaning back against the wall where she was in the kitchen, her breathing somewhat labored because of the broken ribs and she thought about where exactly she had missed the signs, where exactly she had sunk so low into Linc's spell that she hadn't been able to get out when she had tried. The scenes played across her eyes somewhat like they were yesterday and she knew she was drifting in and out of consciousness but Christian would be there soon and none of it would really matter anyways because he would take care of her until she could take care of herself.
A/N: I know that this is a very short chapter and I'm sorry for that, I just needed an introduction of sorts to get the story on its feet. I hope to have the next chapter and the initial start of the story up within the next couple of weeks.
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